ITS United Kingdom started the year by holding a workshop on how major incidents on the road network are handled, what role ITS technologies play at present, and how their role may change in the future. The whole day took the form of an interactive scenario being played through, without a Powerpoint presentation in sight. The scenario had been designed and was acted out by Neal Skelton of ITS (UK) and Mark Cartwright of Centaur Consulting, who chairs the ITS (UK) Security Interest Group. Starting with a crash on a key section of the West Midlands trunk road network in dark and fog, things went downhill from there courtesy of Messrs Skelton and Cartwright, with fatalities, terror- ists, tunnel fires, foreign lorries and general gridlock before the combination of professional and technical expertise was able to get the fictional Midlands moving again.
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